24.02.2022 | Annual report 2020 and 2021
The new digital annual report from MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein takes stock of the coronavirus years 2020 and 2021. 2,501 shooting days, 26.2 million euros in funding, Golden Bears and Leopards.
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FILM INDUSTRY IN TIMES OF CORONA
Over the past two years, thanks to the states of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, in addition to the regular funding, a good5.7 million euros in coronavirus aid was paid out to the film and cinema industry in the funding region. Due to postponements and cancellations, 43 projects alone did not receive theCorona emergency aid utilised, over3 million euros have gone to since 2020Arthouse and neighbourhood cinemas in both federal states.
FUNDED PROJECTS 20/21
Over the past two years, MOIN Film Fund has provided a total of559 funding commitments with aTotal volume of 26.2 million euros pronounced. TheRegional effect amounted to three times the funding amount during this period. This means that EUR 3.12 was spent in the funding region for every euro of funding provided for a completed project.
The funded projects included128 cinema films with a funding volume of17.9 million euros. The highest amounts of funding went to Fatih Akin's gangster epic "Rheingold" (700,000 euros), Lars Jessen's film adaptation of the novel "Mittagsstunde" (700,000 euros) and the animated film "Der letzte Sänger der Wale" (600,000 euros) by Hamburg-based Telescope Animation Studios.
In the areaDevelopment (scripts, project development), a total of168 projects with3.8 million euros will be subsidised. This corresponds to around 15 per cent of the total funding. A new record. The developed material will one day be turned into cinema films, streaming series and innovative moving image content such as virtual reality installations.
High-end series have become an integral part of the current range of streamers and broadcasters: around1.69 million euros has been channelled into 24 series projects over the past two years - and 2022 got off to a direct start with millions in Fundings fromsix other series fabrics. The sponsored series include the Amazon Prime seriesGerman Crime Story: Gefesselt with Oliver Massuci and the documentary series just presented at the BerlinaleReeperbahn Special Unit 65.
TURNING WORK
In 2020, the number of film shoots more than halved due to coronavirus. However, the industry in the north has regained its former strength in 2021. In total, there were in the years2020 and 2021 exactly2,501 shooting dayswhere1,805 to Hamburg and 696 on Schleswig-Holstein are cancelled. OffTEC's film water tank has also established itself as a real insider location tip in Germany's northernmost federal state: Maximilian Erlenwein's underwater thriller "The Dive" was filmed here in 2021 - in 2019, US superstar Michael B. Jordan shot his action film "Tom Clancy's Without remorse" at OffTEC in North Friesland.
FESTIVALS AND PRIZES
Directors, Script Writer and Hamburg resident Mohammad Rasoulof achieved his greatest festival success with his dramaThere is no evil The film about the death penalty in Iran won the Golden Bear in 2020 and was produced by the Hamburg-based company Cosmopol Film. In 2021, one of the most important festival prizes went to the Indonesian Director Edwin: WithVengeance is mine, all others pay cash (co-produced by Fatih Akin's company bombero international), he won the Golden Leopard in Locarno. The Leopard for Best Newcomer Actress went to Saskia Rosendahl for Sabrina Sarabi's dramaNo One's with the Calveswhich had 16 days of filming in Schleswig-Holstein and was produced by Weydemann Bros. from Hamburg. The Hamburg company Bon Voyage Films won with its political satireCurveball - We make the truth the German Film Award 2021 in bronze, Thorsten Merten was honoured as best supporting actor. There were two further German Film Awards for Hermine Huntgeburth's biopicLindenberg - Do your thingwhich was seen by almost 700,000 cinema-goers. Also very successful in the pandemic:Catweazle by Sven Unterwaldt, which attracted more than 600,000 people to the cinema.
DIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
MOIN Film Fund has set itself the goal of ensuring that female filmmakers can receive just as much funding as male filmmakers. This is actually a matter of course. In the "Director's Cut Committee" - responsible for arthouse cinema films - this is already working well with a 53 per cent share of female directors. There is still some way to go in the higher-budget high-end segment, where female directors are clearly in the majority at 76 per cent. More diversity figures can be found in theAnnual report PDF from page 11.
In the area of sustainability, the MOIN Film Fund's work in 2020 focused on theGreen Filming Badge and in 2021 the first nationwide labelGreen Motion was introduced - an idea that began in Hamburg in 2012. This ensures that attention is paid to the ecological footprint from the script to production and distribution.
OUTLOOK CINEMA RELEASES
In 2022, audiences can look forward to a number of MOIN-funded cinema highlights, includingPeter's journey to the moon by Ali Samadi Ahadi (31.03.2022), Michael Bully HerbigsA thousand lines (29.09.2022), Fatih Akin'sRheingold (27.10.2022) and the Meyerhoff novel adaptationWhen Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before (22.12.2022) by Sonja Heiss.
